Galaxy S5 price tag would fall 24% by the summer, research firm suggests

Based on historical data from the previous Samsung Galaxy flagships, the price of this year's S5 model is expected to fall with a quarter of its launch tag after the first three months on the market, shows research of the UK price comparison firm Idealo.

The worst offender in the list seems to have been the Galaxy S III, whose price dropped like a rock from the high seventies to the high forties percentile of its initial asking between the first six months on the market, and a year after that. A more gradual decline can be observed in the Galaxy S II and S4 pricing over time.

The folks from Idealo have extrapolated from the data on the previous three Galaxy S models, and the chart shows a 24% decline in pricing should be in store for the Galaxy S5 by the time summer starts, so you might want to hold onto your purses until then. Unless the S5 turns out to be sight unseen, that is, and you just can't help it but be ab early adopter.

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This is Because of Samsung's Design Saturation in every market and after a particular interval of time one feels that there is not a significant update from the previous model i.e GS3 to GS4..Only some software features upgrade and screen size by (.2) inches.

No, it is because in a competitive market, margins as high as $300+ per phone aren't going to last. Only Apple used to command that kind of power because they were in a non-competitive field until apparently the iPhone 5s release, where even that was discounted 15-25% within 2-3 months. So this happens to all when they have to face competition especially in the droid market.

Monetary easing in US yes, but peoples finance goes from bad to worse.
EU monetary easing (money print) can't happened by default.
And if it could, would lead to large increase of price index.

That's why Germany NEEDS to cannibalize the other countries, mostly the south.
For example german municipals are so much in debts,
that if they were a bit more, would be hut-villages in Africa. No kidding.
That's why german municipals aquired greek ones (!) that were in much better condition. To cannibalize their assets. Believe it.

Oh really!! would yew plz let us know what samsung added in S4 except what i've written above..Coz if they added something different then S4 sales would not have gone down in the past..There are lots of wiser minds out there who still uses S3 or switched to another brand for the time being instead of wasting big bucks on S4..

You both are right, and to add how's that software ota update 4.4.2 KitKat going for you note3 and s4 owners, same old bloatware, skin over android phones are the worst android experience all water down with useless crap

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